Congratulations to John Stott’s RT Champion Kadnook Dreams Edge “Sedge”. Winner of this year’s Retrieving Australia Dog Of The Year Award.

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The Year in Review

127 Gundog Retrieving trials were conducted across Australia in 2015 under ANKC rules (down 3 on 2014). Out of an unknown total number of competitors, 201 dogs placed either 1st, 2nd or 3rd in competition at least once during the year (up 6 on 2014). Dogs received points each time they placed according to RADOTY rules. 65 dogs placed for their first time in 2015 compared with 75 first time placers in 2014. Below is a summary of the final competition results. Full details, including places obtained by each dog, can be seen here. Results for previous years can also be viewed.

NOVICE LEVEL DOGSTop 10 performances by gundogs competing in Novice stakes during the year.(Includes dogs that also competed in higher stakes during the year but excludes any points gained in higher stakes).

A personal thank you to everyone who took time to contribute schedules and results to this programme during the year. Your timely and descriptive reports are what makes this level of feedback possible for competitors to enjoy. Thanks also to the Secretaries and others who forwarded their trial catalogues for archiving for the first time this year. Unfortunately there was not enough received to be able to determine total participation in our sport this year; however the catalogues on file now should be useful references in the future.

Well Peter that is a fantastic effort. All most interesting so thank you so much for your hard work in putting this together for us. Hope you have a happy Christmas/New Year perhaps forgetting about the website for a while! Prue

Congratulations John, what a fantastic effort and a wonderfully consistent year! Congratulations also to Karl and John for very nice years as wellThank you Peter for all of your hard work in the compilation of the results, a very big job indeed. Just a thought, if you have say 5 dogs on equal points of 100 so that they are all listed as No 7 (for example) I think that the dogs on 99 points should be listed as No 13 and so on. Definitely not a criticism, just a thought

Congratulations to all those who have done well with their dogs this year, special congratulations to John Stott, a great achievement.It is nice to see the list of Restricted and Novice dogs as well and this will hopefully encourage people to keep trying in their respective stakes.

Great work compiling all the results Peter, it is a great job and I for one appreciate all the work you do on the website for the retrieving fraternity.

Have a great Christmas and enjoy the few months with less trials to keep you busy.